What did you do TO / WITH your Bronco today? 👨🏻‍🔧🧰🚿🛠

[Mean Green]

You can just bookmark his post by clicking in the upper right hand corner (middle icon) of his post.

Might want to click-thru his links and add the items to your cart, now. Then, Amazon will keep track of the items for you.

Thank you for both suggestions!

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[Beach_Bum]

Thank you for both suggestions!

Next thing you'll be like me bookmarking messages and then never perusing them later. It's a superpower of mine.

 

[ThunderFlash]

Not mine, but put a Blue Ox receiver on a friend's '22 WT with the Curt 4-pin LED tail light harness. I liked the Blue Ox for him because it extends out a little further than the OEM or Curt receivers. It should make getting a locking hitch pin on/off easier and help to clear the spare. He doesn't off road his truck, so the impact on departure angle is not a factor. The BO receiver also has a flange to attach a 4-pin connector bracket. It also has a textured finish which kind of matches the Bronco textures.

For as easy as it is to do, yanking the rear bumper makes it easier to manage the wires, at least with the plastic Bronco bumper. Funny, forgot to take a fully installed pic....maybe one too many Modelos. Oh, and the supplied bolts were a tad long and hit on the bumper when they were inserted from the forward or muffler side of the cross member, so pulling the bumper let the bolts be installed from the rear as the OEM installation requires.

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*NOTE: the Curt bracket holes did not align perfectly with the BO receiver flange so we had to elongate one of the holes in the bracket.

 

[EZ4X4]

The top lift works but it’s definitely not a simple removal with the attic shelf in there.

I do it without help and lower the attic shelf, run the top lift in as far as I can and lift the top a bit, just enough to put some of the tops weight on the toplift. Then you have to scoot the clamshell back onto the toplift all the way.

The clamshell isn’t heavy so scoots pretty easy especially with the sound deadening carpet on the underside. Once it’s centered better on the toplift, I raise it fully and walk it off the bronco.

It’s not “on man I’m gonna drop the top” scary or anything, you just have to now do the removal in a couple more steps. For me, I absolutely love the attic shelf so the extra effort of removal is okay.

Seeing the pic of the EZ4x4 lift, it got me thinking, I got my toplift used from a jeep guy and it came with some support extensions. Maybe those would eliminate the “scooting” part of the initial lift.

Anyway, long winded rambling way to say that a toplift can work fine with the attic shelf folded down if you take your time to figure out a few extra steps to get the clamshell all on the lift all the way.

You’ll love ate attic. I swap to a soft top in the spring and the only beef I have with the shelf is the little thumbscrews you have to remove to drop the shelf to put the soft top all the way back….which I do a lot. They are too small to get a good grip on if they get locked in there tight. Easy DIY fix I suppose but it’s faster to just wiggle the support arm till they loosen up.
Oh…I put a bit of fuel line hose on the mount pins where the shelf swivels as spacers to keep side to side movement stopped and put shrink wrap on the pins that lock the shelf in place. I don’t get a peep from the shelf regardless of how bad the roads are.

If you want some more info, we did a comparison here!

 

[Rockrivr1]

I've only had my Raptor for a month now and I already have a garage full of accessories I'm going to be adding. Just waiting for the negative 0 wind chills to go away for a day and I'll be installing all of it in short order. Just a little too cold outside right now. Soon though hopefully as the weather folks are talking about a warm up later in the month.

 

[nvbronco]

installed my JCR Skid Plate

Do you have the two piece design? I can’t figure out the right way to mount the front piece as their video is different.

 

[Fastmc25]

Installed my aux reverse light. The mount is from Diode Dynamics made for two lights. I modified it to run this 6.2” Hella Black Magic light. These are the same i use as ditch lights on the front. It will be plenty of extra light

I still will have to wire it up. I have Diode Dynamics made harness that taps into the tail light harness. It also allows me to hook into my Upfitter harness to control on demand.

I thought about just hooking it to the Upfitter switch alone and use it when I need it.

 

[ThunderFlash]

@Fastmc25, those light bars are a "Hella"-va value. Used one on mine as a backup light. Pretty hard to beat at the price, and replaceable with few tears should it get smashed or fail in some way.

 

[Fastmc25]

@Fastmc25, those light bars are a "Hella"-va value. Used one on mine as a backup light. Pretty hard to beat at the price, and replaceable with few tears should it get smashed or fail in some way.

did you tap into the reverse lighting or wire to a switch?

 

[ThunderFlash]

did you tap into the reverse lighting or wire to a switch?

Neither. I rigged it to my hitch skid and used the 7-pin connection reverse circuit.

 

[Fastmc25]

Neither. I rigged it to my hitch skid and used the 7-pin connection reverse circuit.

Cool, That is another option I’ve been looking at.

 

[Rydfree]

Picked up two of the 6800watt generators today. Yes they are both inside a 2 dr and no it's not Ai

Surprised the guy at Home Depot also because he looked at my Bronco and said he could wheel the other one back inside until I came back. I looked at him and just said Whaaaat.

 

[ThunderFlash]

I probably insulted engineers and also professional sheet metal workers around the world by haphazardly fabing some splash/stone guards for the Morimoto cornering lights I mounted to the crash bar mounts. It ain't "armor" but hopefully a little protective. The paint is drying on them now, but I think that is going look like hell due to temp, humidity, poor prep, and a VERY old can of paint. Heading out for some muddy trails tomorrow and wanted something in place.

 

[Fastmc25]

I probably insulted engineers and also professional sheet metal workers around the world by haphazardly fabing some splash/stone guards for the Morimoto cornering lights I mounted to the crash bar mounts. It ain't "armor" but hopefully a little protective. The paint is drying on them now, but I think that is going look like hell due to temp, humidity, poor prep, and a VERY old can of paint. Heading out for some muddy trails tomorrow and wanted something in place.

perfect

 

[Oldhippie]

Went to 4x4 & coffee at a local shop… nice EB and they got fork lift out…Jeep got a 550 score compared to my 150…

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